Re: git copies of cvs modules available

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 05:51:40PM -0500, Miles Nordin wrote:
> >>>>> "tls" == Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost> writes:
> 
>    tls> silly excuses people are making for the speed and resource
>    tls> consumption issues that users are reporting.
> 
> ``please make your estimates using git://... instead of http://...''
> is a reasonable and practical suggestion, not a silly excuse.

If the network protocol used to access the version control software
can cause an order-of-magnitude difference in the memory resources used
to check out from the repository, there's something deeply wrong with
either the design or implementation of the version control software in
question.

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